52033
inspect
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪnˈspɛkt/[Alternative forms]
- enspect (rare)
[Anagrams]
- incepts, pectins, peincts
[Etymology]
From Latin inspectum, past participle of inspicere (“to look into”), from in (“in”) + specere (“to look at”), equivalent to in- + -spect.
[Synonyms]
- (to examine critically or carefully): See Thesaurus:examine
[Verb]
inspect (third-person singular simple present inspects, present participle inspecting, simple past and past participle inspected)
1.To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
Inspect the system for leaks.
2.To view and examine officially.
The general inspected the troops and their barracks.
3.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
‘ […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.
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kid
[[English]]
ipa :/kɪd/[Anagrams]
- IDK, idk
[Etymology 1]
A goat kid.From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.[1][2]
[Etymology 2]
Compare Welsh cidysen.
[Further reading]
- kid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[References]
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “kid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. ^ Francis Grose (1785) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, page 98: “KID, a child.”
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
From Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål kid, English kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.
[Noun]
kid n (singular definite kiddet, plural indefinite kid)
1.A young goat.
[[French]]
ipa :/kid/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English kid.
[Noun]
kid m (plural kids)
1.(colloquial) kid
Synonyms: gamin, gosse, (regional) minot
[[Hungarian]]
ipa :[ˈkid][Etymology]
ki (“who”) + -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)
[Pronoun]
kid
1.second-person singular single-possession possessive of ki
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/çidː/[Etymology]
From Danish kid. Doublet of kje (“goatling”) from Norwegian kje.
[Noun]
kid n (definite singular kidet, indefinite plural kid, definite plural kida or kidene)
1.the meat of a goatling
[References]
- “kid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Noun]
kìd n (definite singular kìdet, indefinite plural kìd, definite plural kìdi)
1.(pre-1917) alternative form of kje
[[Sikaritai]]
[Further reading]
- Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)
[Noun]
kid
1.banana
[[Sumerian]]
[Romanization]
kid
1.Romanization of 𒆤 (kid)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :-iːd[Etymology]
From Old Swedish kiþ, from Old Norse kið, from Proto-Germanic *kidją‚ from Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ-.
[Noun]
kid n
1.a young deer
[[Volapük]]
[Noun]
kid (nominative plural kids)
1.kiss
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Kidd
[[English]]
[Proper noun]
Kidd (plural Kidds)
1.A surname.
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Kid
[[German]]
ipa :/kɪt/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English kid.
[Further reading]
- “Kid” in Duden online
- “Kid” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
[Noun]
Kid n (strong, genitive Kids, plural Kids)
1.(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) kid
2.2021 March 22, Andrian Kreye, quoting Mathias Modica, “Jazzkolumne: Kosmopolitenklänge von Mathias Modica”, in Süddeutsche Zeitung[1]:
In Neukölln aber, wo er wohnt, seit er aus Marseille nach Deutschland gezogen ist, "da gibt es um mich herum lauter Jazzclubs, vor denen die Kids mit den Nike Caps und den Balenciaga-Schuhen stehen". Auch weil beim Techno eher die 45-jährigen herumhängen.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)
[[Swedish]]
[Symbol]
Kid
1.(SAB) history of Genoa
Holonym: Ki
Coordinate terms: Ki.3, Ki.4, Ki.5, Ki.6, Kid, Kie, Kif, Kig, Kih, Kij, Kik, Kil, Kiv, Kix, Kiy
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versatility
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌvəɹsəˈtɪlɪti/[Etymology]
versatile + -ity
[Noun]
versatility (usually uncountable, plural versatilities)
1.The property of being versatile or having many different abilities.
Synonyms: versatileness (less common); flexibility
2.1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son 1749
Those are the sort of women who polish a young man the most, and who give him that habit of complaisance, and that flexibility and versatility of manners which prove of great use to him with men, and in the course of business.
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remnant
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɛmnənt/[Adjective]
remnant (not comparable)
1.(archaic) Still left; remaining.
2.1639, Thomas Fuller, “Lewis the Ninth Setteth Forward against the Turks; the Occasion of His Journey, and His Attendants”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 187:
[H]is vow was made in his ſickneſſe, whileſt reaſon was ſcarce as yet in the peaceable poſſeſſion of his mind, becauſe of the remnant dregs of his diſeaſe: […]
3.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 461:
It bid Her feel / No future Pain for Me; but inſtant wed / A Lover more proportion'd to her Bed; / And quiet dedicate her remnant Life / To the juſt duties of an humble Wife.
[Alternative forms]
- remnaunt (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- manrent
[Etymology]
From Middle English, contraction of remenant, from Anglo-Norman remanant, present participle of remaindre, from Latin remaneō.
[Further reading]
- “remnant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “remnant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “remnant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[Noun]
remnant (plural remnants)
1.The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
2.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 10:20–23:
20 ¶ And it shal come to passe in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Iacob, shall no more againe stay vpon him that smote them: but shall stay vpon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel in trueth.
21 The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iacob, vnto the mightie God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall returne: the consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.
3.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 267:
Even while within sight of persons of the prevailing faith, there were individuals bold enough, by folding their arms and bending their head, to give distant and silent intimation that they recognized sister Magdalen, and honoured alike her person and her purpose. She failed not to notice to her grandson these marks of honour and respect which from time to time she received. “You see,” she said, “my son, that the enemies have been unable altogether to suppress the good spirit, or to root out the true seed. Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.”
4.The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
Usually not enough to make an entire project by itself, remnants of several fabrics can be used to make quilts.
5.An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
[Synonyms]
- (small remaining portion): relic, residue, remainder, lave; See also Thesaurus:remainder
- (unsold end of piece goods): remains
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blow
[[English]]
ipa :/bləʊ/[Anagrams]
- bowl
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English blo, bloo, from Old English blāw (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue, grey, black”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with Latin flavus (“yellow”). Doublet of blue.
[Etymology 3]
From Middle English blowe, blaw, northern variant of blēwe, from Proto-Germanic *blewwaną (“to beat”) (compare Old Norse blegði (“wedge”), German einbläuen, Middle Dutch blouwen). Related to block.
[Etymology 4]
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blōwan, from Proto-Germanic *blōaną (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (compare Latin florēre (“to bloom”)).
[Further reading]
- Jonathon Green (2024), “blow n.3”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/blɔu̯/[Etymology 1]
From blowen.
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blow up
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- Publow, upblow
[Etymology]
From Middle English blow up, blowe up, dissimilated forms of earlier Middle English upblowen (> English upblow), equivalent to blow + up. Compare West Frisian opblaze (“to blow up, inflate”), Dutch opblazen (“to blow up, inflate”), German aufblähen and aufblasen (“to blow up, inflate”), Swedish blåsa upp (“to blow up, inflate”), Icelandic blása upp (“to blow up, inflate”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌱𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌰𐌽 (ufblēsan, “to blow or puff up”).
[Verb]
blow up (third-person singular simple present blows up, present participle blowing up, simple past blew up, past participle blown up)
1.(literally, transitive) To blow something upward.
See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.
2.(intransitive) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?
3.1961 January, “Talking of Trains: The Severn Bridge disaster”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 3, 5:
In dense fog at about 10.25 p.m. on the night of October 25, two tank barges carrying petroleum [...] missed the entrance to the docks at Sharpness and were carried up the River Severn by the incoming tide. They collided with one of the piers of the Severn Bridge, carrying the Berkeley Road-Lydney branch of the Western Region, and as a result of the collision both tankers blew up.
4.(transitive) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.
More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines.
5.1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:
Temporary bridges are now common in Moravia and Slovakia as so many permanent structures were blown up during the last phase of the war.
6.2023 May 17, Paul Clifton, “Building bridges to Ukraine...”, in RAIL, number 983, page 31:
"But we wanted to be more ambitious. We had established contacts with the Ukrainian railways, and they had all sorts of needs. Bridges blown up by the Russians, but also bridges blown up by themselves in tactical battlefield operations."
7.(transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump.
For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.
8.(transitive) To enlarge or zoom in.
Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces.
9.(intransitive) To fail disastrously.
10.2002, Joan Barfoot, Critical injuries, page 118:
So I wish you luck, but don't come crying to me when it blows up in your face.
11.(slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV.
12.1999, Eminem, My Name Is (song)
You know you blew up when the women rush your stands
And try to touch your hands like some screaming Usher fans […]
13.(slang) To suddenly get very angry.
Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant.
14.(slang, intransitive) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
15.(transitive, dated) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
to blow someone up with flattery
16.1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
blown up with high conceits engendering pride
17.(transitive, dated) To excite.
to blow up a contention
18.(transitive, dated) To scold violently.
19.1807, The Port Folio, page 313:
[…] did not choose to comply with her wishes. Upon which Mrs. Basset, in the language of the Old Bailey, nabbed the rust; insisted upon some liquor, would not quit the house without it, and began to blow up the hostess and blast the rose.
20.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 13, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II:
#*: I have blown him up well — nobody can say I wink at what he does.
21.(sports) To blow the whistle.
22.(cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
23.(slang, transitive) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
24.2007, “Fucc & Git Up”, in DZ (lyrics), Sleepless City Livin, performed by DZ ft. Gangsta Nutt, from 1:59:
I am the man
So I’m sitting in the VIP
with my mains
We twisted up some Crip
but I am ready to dip
to the telly with my relly
cuz these fuckin git up chicks keep blowin up my celly.
aːm ðə meɪ̯n
soʊ̯ aːm sɪtɪn ɪn ðə vɪp
wɪθ maː meɪ̯ns
wiː twɪstəd ʌp sʊm kɹɪp
bʌt aːm ɹɛdi tu dɪp
tʊ ðə tɛli wɪθ maː ɹɛli
kʌz ðiːz fʌkɪn gɪt ʌp t͡ʃɪks kiːp blowɪn ʌp maː sɛli
25.2009, RM Johnson, Why Men Fear Marriage: The Surprising Truth Behind Why So Many Men Can't Commit, →ISBN:
Don't let them sabotage a possible good thing by blowing up your phone while you're in the middle of a hot date with nonsense like, “Jason keeps asking for a Popsicle before bed. Do you think it's okay that I give him one?”
26.2011, Jaime Reed, Living Violet, →ISBN, page 67:
Dad sure knew how to kill a mood. He had blown up my phone all day, ensuring that I didn't back out of our agreement.
27.2012, Chris Hicks, Ebony Chronicles of Elevation, volume 1, →ISBN, page 181:
Not knowing the whereabouts of his daughter, Tavon blew up her phone without once getting a response.
28.2013, Michelle McKinney Hammond, The Real Deal on Love and Men, →ISBN:
He has never officially said that we are in a relationship, but he blows up my phone night and day, always wanting to know where I am.
29.2014 September 11, Alexis Petridis, quoting Kelly Brook, “A freedom fighter for our time: Kelly Brook will not be silenced over Danny Cipriani”, in The Guardian[1]:
“Danny Cipriani is blowing up my phone saying: ‘I’m going to sue you’,” she said, shortly before announcing her willingness to go to prison over the issue.
30.2015, Kacey Musgraves, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
They're blowing up our phones, asking where we are / Just say we're almost there; we ain't even in the car
31.(slang, intransitive) Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
32.1992, Ice Cube (lyrics and music), “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:
Halfway home, and my pager's still blowin' up
33.(slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
Don't go in there...I really blew it up.
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blow-up
[[English]]
[Adjective]
blow-up (not comparable)
1.Inflatable; able to be blown up.
The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
[Anagrams]
- Publow, upblow
[Etymology]
Deverbal from blow up.
[Noun]
blow-up (plural blow-ups)
1.(informal) An explosion (physical or emotional).
I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
2.2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
How OpenAI resolves the blow-up at its highest levels may help show how well its competitors, in the race for human-level AI, can be expected to handle the deep contradictions in their work between progress and safety.
3.(informal) An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).
Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.
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blew
[[English]]
ipa :/bl(j)uː/[Adjective]
blew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)
1.Obsolete form of blue.
[Noun]
blew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)
1.Obsolete form of blue.
[Verb]
blew
1.simple past of blow
2.(now colloquial) past participle of blow
[[Cornish]]
[Etymology]
Cognate with Breton blev and Welsh blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]
[Noun]
blew f (singulative blewen)
1.hair
[References]
1. ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
[Synonyms]
- gols
[[Middle English]]
[Adjective]
blew
1.Alternative form of blewe
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/ˈbleːu̯/[Etymology]
From Middle Welsh blew; cognate with Breton blev and Cornish blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]
[Mutation]
[Noun]
blew m (collective, singulative blewyn)
1.hair, hairs
Synonym: gwallt
2.bristles
Synonym: gwrych
3.fur
Synonyms: ffwr, manflew
4.blades of grass
Synonyms: blew cae, blew glas
5.fishbones
[References]
1. ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
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Blow
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- bowl
[Proper noun]
Blow (plural Blows)
1.A surname.
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taking
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈteɪkɪŋ/[Adjective]
taking (comparative more taking, superlative most taking)
1.Alluring; attractive.
2.1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC, book, page 128:
[…] a Proteus-Devil appeared unto him, changing into Shapes, but fixing himself at last into the form of a Fair Woman. Strange, that Satan (so subtil in making his Temptations most taking) should preferre this form […]
The spelling has been modernized.
3.1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 9, in The Younger Brother[1], volume 2, London: for the author, page 263:
His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.
4.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native[2], Book 3, Chapter 1:
“Yes, Paris must be a taking place,” said Humphrey. “Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers—”
5.1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291:
The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady. A young lady. A very taking young lady. She called him uncle. But walked away in another direction as his cab started. The porter's eye was beginning to twinkle; […]
6.(obsolete) Infectious; contagious.
7.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
You taking airs, with lameness!
8.1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The False One[3], act IV, scene 3:
Come not near me,
For I am yet too taking for your company.
[Noun]
taking (countable and uncountable, plural takings)
1.The act by which something is taken.
2.1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 27, in Lord Jim[4], Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 290:
At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.
3.2010, Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements, page 75:
Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
4.(uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
5.(uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
6.1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene III:
What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?
7.1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, vol. 2, ch. 16, p. 321:
"[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking.
"'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]
8.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 30, in Far from the Madding Crowd[5]:
“And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.”
9.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102:
‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’
10.1970, Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave[6], New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 26:
“[...] there’ll be a beating for someone, by my reckoning, if he’s not there by the time the King’s looking round for him. He’s been in a rare taking since the outriders came in, that I can tell you.”
11.(in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
Synonyms: income, receipts
Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
Count the shop's takings.
12.1929, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in A Room of One’s Own[7], London: The Hogarth Press, published 1931, page 60:
[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.
13.1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:
According to T. B. Sands in his history of the M.S.W.J.R. (Oakwood Press: 8s 6d) Fay at first had to await cash takings from stations before he could pay his staff; [...].
14.1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 12, in A Fine Balance[8], Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, pages 554–555:
The child was not returned to the mother. [...] strangers giving him suck found it easier to display the utter despair in their faces that made for successful begging, whereas if [the mother] had had the pleasure of clasping her little son to her bosom all day, it would have been impossible to keep a spark of joy, however tiny, out of her eyes, which would have adversely affected the takings.
[Verb]
taking
1.present participle and gerund of take
2.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
[[Tagalog]]
ipa :/ˈtakiŋ/[Noun]
taking (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃᜒᜅ᜔)
1.(Taal Batangas) boy
Synonyms: totoy, toto, tuto, itoy
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52048
Tak
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- ATK, KAT, Kat, TKA, kat
[Etymology 2]
From Thai ตาก (dtàak).English Wikipedia has an article on:Tak ProvinceWikipedia English Wikipedia has an article on:TakWikipedia
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52049
in for it
[[English]]
[Adjective]
in for it (not comparable)
1.(idiomatic) Irrevocably committed to something.
2.(idiomatic) In trouble.
3.1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
"You sure did [hit someone with the snowball]," added Teeter, stiffling a laugh. "And of all persons in the school but Professor Rodd. Oh my! Oh wow! You're in for it now! He won't do a thing to you fellows! Look at his hat! Here he comes!"
[References]
- “in for it”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
[See also]
- for it
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52050
provision
[[English]]
ipa :/pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/[Etymology]
From Middle English provisioun, from Old French provisïon, from Latin prōvīsiō (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).
[Noun]
provision (countable and uncountable, plural provisions)
1.An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], page 17, →OCLC:
[H]e hath preſerued all points of Humanity, in taking Order, and making Proviſion for the Releefe of Strangers diſtreſſed; whereof you have taſted.
3.1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 307:
[Noah] Began to build a Veſſel of huge bulk, / Meaſur'd by Cubit, length, and breadth, and highth, / Smeared round with Pitch, and in the ſide a dore, / Contriv'd, and of proviſions laid in large / For Man and Beaſt: [...]
4.1728 [1721 March 17], William Betagh, A Voyage Round the World. Being an Account of a Remarkable Enterprize, Begun In the Year 1719, chiefly to cruiſe on the Spaniards in the great South Ocean. Relating the True hiſtorical Facts of that whole Affair: Teſtifyd by many imployd therein; and confirmd by Authorities from the Owners.[1], London: T. Combes, →OCLC, page 151:
We have an infirm ſhip's company, and but five months proviſion, which muſt ſerve us to China unleſs we get a ſupply at Guam.
5.The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
6.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Fiue dayes we do allot thee for prouision,
To shield thee from disasters of the world,
7.Money set aside for a future event.
8.(accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
We increased our provision for bad debts on credit sales going into the recession.
9.
10.(law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
Synonyms: condition, stipulation
An arrest shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
11.2024 March 12, ETSC, ETSC[2]:
Almost half of MEPs wanted to remove the new provisions' to expand the use of megatrucks but an amendment to do that failed to pass by just six votes.
12.(Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
13.(Britain, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
14.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
a papal provision
[Synonyms]
- supply
- victual
[Verb]
provision (third-person singular simple present provisions, present participle provisioning, simple past and past participle provisioned)
1.(transitive) To supply with provisions.
to provision an army
2.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
3.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 85:
An emancipated slave must be provisioned by the master.
4.(transitive, computing) To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system so it can be used for a specific purpose.
Antonym: deprovision
5.2023, Kenneth Hess, Practical Linux System Administration[3], O'Reilly, →ISBN:
A solution is to provision new systems on a private network where they can receive updates, patches, and secure configurations from an internal repository before being placed into a production network.
[[Finnish]]
[Noun]
provision
1.genitive singular of provisio
[[French]]
ipa :/pʁɔ.vi.zjɔ̃/[Anagrams]
- poivrions
[Etymology]
From Latin prōvīsiōnem (“preparation, foresight”), from prōvidēre (“provide”).
[Further reading]
- “provision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
provision f (plural provisions)
1.provision
[[Louisiana Creole]]
[Etymology]
From French provision (“provision”).
[Noun]
provision
1.provision
[[Middle English]]
[Noun]
provision
1.Alternative form of provisioun
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52051
alter
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɔːl.tə/[Anagrams]
- Alert, alert, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar
[Etymology 1]
From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.
[Etymology 2]
Probably from alter ego.
[See also]
- alter kaker
[[Danish]]
ipa :[ˈald̥ɐ][Etymology]
From Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Late Latin altare (“altar”). Cognate with English altar and German Altar.
[Noun]
alter n (singular definite altret or alteret, plural indefinite altre)
1.(religion) altar, a table or a platform for making sacrifices.
2.(Christianity) altar, the ritual space of a Christian church.
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈʔaltɐ/[Adjective]
alter
1.inflection of alt:
1.strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
2.strong genitive/dative feminine singular
3.strong genitive plural
[[Indonesian]]
ipa :[ˈalt̪ɛr][Etymology]
From English alter, from Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterare (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”).
[Further reading]
- “alter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
[Verb]
alter
1.to alter, to tailor clothes to make them fit.
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈal.ter/[Adjective]
alter (feminine altera, neuter alterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal)
1.the other, the second
2.the one...the other (alter...alter)
3.Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 17:
De re frumentaria Boios atque Aeduos adhortari non destitit; quorum alteri, [...] non multum adiuvabant, alteri non magnis facultatibus, [...] celeriter quod habuerunt consumpserunt
He never ceased to urge the Boii and Aedui for supplies; of whom the one (Aedui) [...] did not help much, the others (Boii) as their resources was not great, [...] quickly consumed what they had
[Etymology]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂élteros (“the other of two”). Akin to alius. Compare with ulter.
[Further reading]
- “alter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- one or two days: unus et alter dies
- one, two, several days had passed, intervened: dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
[References]
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1444: “l'altro raccoglie” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 76: “aux autres” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “alter”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 353
[[Lombard]]
[Adjective]
alter
1.other
[Etymology]
Akin to Italian altro, from Latin alter.
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
[[Norwegian Nynorsk]]
[Alternative forms]
- altar
[Noun]
alter n (definite singular alteret, indefinite plural alter, definite plural altera)
1.an altar
[[Old High German]]
[Adjective]
altēr
1.strong masculine nominative singular of alt
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Alter
[[German]]
ipa :/ˈaltər/[Etymology 1]
From Middle High German alter, from Old High German altar, from Proto-Germanic *aldrą. Cognate with German Low German Oller.
[Etymology 2]
Nominalization of adjective alt.
[Further reading]
- “Alter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Alter” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Alter” in Duden online
- “Alter” in Duden online
[[Luxembourgish]]
ipa :[ˈɑl.tɐ][Etymology]
From German Alter n. The masculine gender, though existing dialectally in German, is probably triggered by French âge.
[Noun]
Alter m (plural Alteren)
1.age
2.old age
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52055
transpire
[[English]]
ipa :/tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/[Anagrams]
- earprints, pretrains, terrapins
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former.
[Further reading]
- “transpire”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
transpire (third-person singular simple present transpires, present participle transpiring, simple past and past participle transpired)
1.(transitive, intransitive) To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.). [from 16th c.]
2.(obsolete, intransitive) To perspire. [17th–19th c.]
Synonym: sweat
3.(botany, intransitive) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata. [from 17th c.]
4.(intransitive) To become known; to escape from secrecy. [from 18th c.]
Synonym: come to light
It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.
5.1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers.
6.1839, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register of World Events:
Hubert then recommends M. Leproux to be punctual to meet him at the rendezvous agreed on between them, where a third individual, whose name did not transpire, was to join them.
7.(loosely, intransitive) To happen, take place. [from 18th c.]
Synonyms: come about, come to pass, occur; see also Thesaurus:happen
8.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 166:
Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.
9.2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian[1]:
But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.
[[French]]
[Anagrams]
- reprisant
- respirant
- sprintera
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirer:
1.first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2.second-person singular imperative
[[Galician]]
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Portuguese]]
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[tranˈspire][Verb]
transpire
1.third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of transpira
[[Spanish]]
[Verb]
transpire
1.inflection of transpirar:
1.first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2.third-person singular imperative
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bottom
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈbɒtəm/[Adjective]
bottom (not comparable)
1.The lowest or last place or position.
Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
2.(transgender) Relating to the genitals.
bottom dysphoria
bottom surgery
[Alternative forms]
- botton (dialectal)
[Antonyms]
- (lowest part): top
- (BDSM): top, dom
- (LGBT): top
[Etymology]
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian ⁧بن⁩ (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.
[Noun]
bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)
1.The lowest part of anything.
2.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 13, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
barrels with the bottoms knocked out
3.#* 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 19, in Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out
4.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
At the bottom of the staircase I stood and stared at the worn steps, and Ayesha, turning, saw me.
5.1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
1.A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
Coordinate term: top
There's a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
2.Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
a soda and a bottom of brandyThe far end of somewhere.
There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
I walked to the bottom of the street.(uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
lack bottom(dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.
- 2017, Les Savage, The Teton Bunch: A Western Trio:
This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.(now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.
- 1812, Amos Stoddard, Sketches of Louisiana:
the bottoms and the high grounds(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.(euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- 1986 April 10, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!!
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks(often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian[1]:
In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.An abyss.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode
The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...](nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
- November 8, 1773, [first name not given] Bancroft, in Boston Post-Boy
Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- 1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 6:
Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.
1.(broadly, by extension) A submissive partner in a sexual relationship.(LGBT slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who prefers the receptive role in anal sex.
James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.
Synonym: catcher, pathic
Antonym: top(particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
Hypernym: flavor A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.(heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 207:
Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules.
- 1866, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ... Eighteenth edition. Revised and corrected by J. R. Planché, page 99:
BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland.
- 1873, Henry Sydney Grazebrook, The Heraldry of Worcestershire, page 285:
[...] three “bottoms or clewes” (elsewhere called “spindles” or “fusils upon slippers”) in fesse gules threaded or, for Badlond;(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
[Synonyms]
- (lowest part): base
- (buttocks, British, euphemistic): sit upon, derriere, 🍑
- (LGBT): catcher
- (BDSM): sub, submissive
[Verb]
bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)
1.(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
to bottom a chair
2.(transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
3.Dirge of the Drinker, in 1866, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art (page 645)
We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]
4.(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
5.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
6.(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
7.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
But an absurd opinion concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
8.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
9.2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59:
Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
10.(transitive, chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
11.1989, B Mukherjee, Jasmine:
My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
12.(obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
13.'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman
Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms.
14.(mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
15.(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
16.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 21:
Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.
17.To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
18.2004, John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships, page 119:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.
19.(BDSM, intransitive) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
20.(gay slang, intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex. [from 20th c.]
21.2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 301:
Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year.
The only time I ever bottomed in my life, my sphincter was pierced.
[[French]]
ipa :/bɔ.tɔm/[Adjective]
bottom (plural bottoms)
1.(LGBT, slang) bottom (passive in role)
Synonym: passif
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English bottom.
[[Portuguese]]
[Adjective]
bottom (invariable, not comparable)
1.Only used in quark bottom
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English bottom.
[Noun]
bottom m (plural bottons)
1.bottom quark (quark)
[[Yola]]
[Noun]
bottom
1.Alternative form of bothom
[References]
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135
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disruptor
[[English]]
[Etymology]
disrupt + -or
[Noun]
disruptor (plural disruptors)
1.Alternative spelling of disrupter
[[Ido]]
[Verb]
disruptor
1.future infinitive of disruptar
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/disrubˈtoɾ/[Noun]
disruptor m (plural disruptores)
1.disrupter
2.2015 September 20, “La ropa usada se cotiza”, in El País[1]:
Por eso no es casualidad que entre los asesores de esta compañía se encuentre Brian Swette, que fue director de Operaciones de eBay. Reed Hastings, fundador del videoclub online Netflix, considerado uno de los grandes disruptores de la era digital, es otro de los asesores de ThredUP. Highland Capital, Trinity Ventures, Redpoint Venture y Highland Capital Partners olieron hace tiempo el dinero.
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52058
subsequence
[[English]]
[Etymology 1]
From subsequent.
[Etymology 2]
sub- + sequenceEnglish Wikipedia has an article on:subsequenceWikipedia
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52059
sub
[[English]]
ipa :/sʌb/[Anagrams]
- Bus., SBU, UBS, USB, bus, bus.
[Etymology 1]
- Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
- (lend a person money): From subsidize.
[Etymology 2]
From Latin sub.
[Related terms]
- blood sub
- D-sub
- dye-sub
- Italian sub
- Italian sub sandwich
- pizza sub
- pizza sub sandwich
- pub-sub
- semper ubi sub ubi
- soft-sub
- soft sub
- stone sub
- sub atomic
- sub bench
- sub clover
- sub fusc
- sub in
- sub judice
- sub modo
- sub nom.
- sub out
- sub sandwich
- sub silencio
- sub specie aeterni
- sub tender
- sub voce
[[Dutch]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from English sub.
[Noun]
sub c (plural subs)
1.submarine, sub
[[Esperanto]]
ipa :[sub][Antonyms]
- super
[Etymology]
From Latin sub.
[Preposition]
sub
1.under, below
[[Ido]]
[Preposition]
sub
1.under, below
[[Italian]]
ipa :/ˈsub/[Etymology 1]
Clipping of subacqueo.
[Etymology 2]
Clipping of English submissive.
[References]
1. ^ sub in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Latin]]
ipa :/sub/[Etymology]
From Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upó. Compare Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó).The usage with the accusative is from the pre-PIE directional, while with the ablative it is from both the locative, “under”, and the ablative, “from underneath”.
[Preposition]
sub (+ accusative, ablative)
1.(with ablative)
1.under, beneath
2.behind
3.at the feet of
4.within, during
5.about, around (time); just before, just after, shortly before, shortly after(with accusative)
1.under, up to, up under, close to (of a motion)
2.until, before, up to, about
[References]
- “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sub in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sub in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
- in the open air: sub divo
- to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
- to come within the sphere of the senses: sensibus or sub sensus subiectum esse
- to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
- to be comprised under the term 'fear.: sub metum subiectum esse
- to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
- graphic depiction: rerum sub aspectum paene subiectio (De Or. 3. 53. 202)
- to give a general idea of a thing: sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid
- to sell a prisoner of war as a slave: aliquem sub corona vendere (B. G. 3. 16)
- the case is still undecided: adhuc sub iudice lis est (Hor. A. P. 77)
- to occupy the foot of a hill: considere sub monte (sub montis radicibus)
- the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
- to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: sub imperio et dicione alicuius esse
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/sub/[Alternative forms]
- subt, supt — popular
[Etymology]
Inherited from Latin subtus, from sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo. Compare Aromanian sum.
[Preposition]
sub (+accusative)
1.under, below, beneath, underneath
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈsub/[Preposition]
sub
1.under
[[Swedish]]
[Anagrams]
- bus
[Noun]
sub c
1.(slang) a subwoofer, a bass loudspeaker; Contraction of subwoofer.
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52060
sequencing
[[English]]
[Noun]
sequencing (countable and uncountable, plural sequencings)
1.Arrangement in a sequence.
2.(molecular biology) The procedure of determining the order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain of a protein (protein sequencing) or of nucleotides in a DNA section comprising a gene (gene sequencing).
[Verb]
sequencing
1.present participle and gerund of sequence
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52061
sequence
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsiːkwəns/[Etymology]
From Middle English sequence,[1] borrowed from Old French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.
[Further reading]
- “sequence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sequence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
[Noun]
sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)
1.A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
2.(uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
Complete the listed tasks in sequence.
3.A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
4.A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
5.
6. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
7.(now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
8.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, pages 12–13:
he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.
9.A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
10.2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
What follows is a bunch of nonstop goofery involving chase sequences, dream sequences, fast-changing costumes and an improbable beard, a little musical help from Flight Of The Conchords, and ultimately a very physical confrontation with a surprisingly spry Victoria.
11.(card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
[References]
1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “sequence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
[Synonyms]
- (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence
[Verb]
sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)
1.(transitive) to arrange in an order
2.(transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
3.(transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer
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52062
work
[[English]]
ipa :/wɜː(ɹ)k/[Alternative forms]
- (obsolete) werke, worke
- (nonstandard, AAVE) wuk
- (obsolete except as LGBT slang) werk
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom; akin to Scots wark, Saterland Frisian Wierk, West Frisian wurk, Dutch werk, German Werk, German Low German Wark, Danish værk, Norwegian Bokmål verk, Norwegian Nynorsk verk, Swedish verk and yrke, Icelandic verk, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌹 (gawaurki), Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (from ϝέργον (wérgon)), Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰 (vərəz, “to work, to perform”), Armenian գործ (gorc, “work”), Albanian argëtoj (“entertain, reward, please”). English cognates include bulwark, boulevard, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright. Doublet of erg and ergon.
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English werken and worchen, from Old English wyrċan and wircan (Mercian), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ǵyéti (“to be working, to be at work”), from the root *werǵ-. Cognate with Old Frisian werka, wirka, Old Saxon wirkian, Low German warken, Dutch werken, Old High German wurken (German wirken, werken and werkeln), Old Norse yrkja and orka, (Swedish yrka and orka), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waurkjan).
[Further reading]
- "work" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 334.
[References]
1. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881), “Work”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
[[Chinese]]
ipa :/wœːk̚⁵/[Adjective]
work (Hong Kong Cantonese)
1.working as intended; functioning
2.effective
[Etymology]
From English work (verb).
[References]
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
[Verb]
work (Hong Kong Cantonese)
1.to work as intended; to function
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TaN
52064
animated
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ.tɪd/[Adjective]
animated (comparative more animated, superlative most animated)
1.Full of life or spirit; lively; vigorous; spritely.
an animated discussion
2.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
3.Endowed with life.
4.1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection:
Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.
5.Composed of inanimate objects or drawings that have the illusion of motion through the use of computer graphics or stop-action filming.
an animated film
[Anagrams]
- Mandaite, aminated, diamante, diamanté
[Synonyms]
- (full of life or spirit): brisk, dynamic, peppy; see also Thesaurus:active
- (endowed with life): animate, living; see also Thesaurus:alive
- (composed of objects/drawings that appear to move): claymated
[Verb]
animated
1.simple past and past participle of animate
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52065
abrupt
[[English]]
ipa :/əˈbɹʌpt/[Adjective]
abrupt (comparative more abrupt or abrupter, superlative most abrupt or abruptest)
1.(obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint). [Attested only in the late 16th century.][1]
2.Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
3.1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, II-iii:
The cause of your abrupt departure.
4.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 76:
There was something in this abrupt allusion to the treasured and hidden past, that at once shocked and silenced Norbourne. He was annoyed to find that his heart's sweetest secret was in the possession of one so little likely to keep it;...
5.2020 January 28, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies[1], →ISBN, page 130:
'Is it a slickstone?' she asks, and Maren snorts, an abrupt sound, bringing her hand up to her mouth.
6.Curt in manner. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
Synonyms: brusque, rude, uncivil, impolite
7.1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter 12, page 301:
With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
8.Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
9.1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter[2]:
The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
10.(obsolete) Broken off. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.][1]
11.Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
12.1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
The mazy-running brook
Forms a deep pool; this bank abrupt and high.
13.1961 October, ""Voyageur"", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick.
14.(botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate. [First attested in the early 19th century.][1]
15.1839, William Baxter, British Phænogamous Botany[3], →OCLC:
Root oblong, blackish, nearly the thickness of the little finger, often growing obliquely; abrupt at the lower end, so as to appear as if bitten off, furnished with long whitish fibres.
[Etymology]
First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”).[1][2]
[Noun]
abrupt (plural abrupts)
1.(poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][1]
2.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Over the vast abrupt.
[References]
1.↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrupt”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.
2. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 6
[Synonyms]
- (precipitous): broken, rough, rugged
- (without time to prepare): sudden; see also Thesaurus:sudden
- (uncivil): blunt, brusque
- (without transition): disconnected, unexpected
[Verb]
abrupt (third-person singular simple present abrupts, present participle abrupting, simple past and past participle abrupted)
1.(transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][1]
2.1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC:
Till death abrupts them.
3.To interrupt suddenly. [First attested in the mid 17th century.][1]
[[Dutch]]
[Adjective]
abrupt (comparative abrupter, superlative abruptst)
1.abrupt (sudden)
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French abrupt, itself borrowed from Latin abruptus, from abrumpēre (“to break off”).
[[French]]
ipa :/a.bʁypt/[Adjective]
abrupt (feminine abrupte, masculine plural abrupts, feminine plural abruptes)
1.Extremely steep, near vertical
2.curt and abrupt
3.Done or said forwardly and without caution to avoid shocking
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Latin abruptus.
[Further reading]
- “abrupt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[[German]]
ipa :/apˈʁʊpt/[Adjective]
abrupt (strong nominative masculine singular abrupter, comparative abrupter, superlative am abruptesten)
1.abrupt
1.sudden, unforeseen
Synonyms: jäh, plötzlich, schlagartig
2.unconnected, having sudden transitions, (of movements) jerking
[Etymology]
18th century, from Latin abruptus.
[Further reading]
- “abrupt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “abrupt” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
[[Norwegian Bokmål]]
ipa :/aˈbrʉpt/[Adjective]
abrupt (neuter singular abrupt, definite singular and plural abrupte, comparative mer abrupt, superlative mest abrupt)
1.abrupt (having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed)
Synonyms: plutselig, brå
abrupte setninger ― abrupt sentences
abrupt tale ― abrupt speech
2.1976, Karsten Alnæs, Felttoget, page 14:
han lignet en vadefugl, ikke bare i skikkelsen, men også gjennom den abrupte rykkende gangen
he resembled a wader, not only in the figure, but also through the abrupt jerking passage
3.1993, Tor Ulven, Avløsning, page 47:
i et abrupt glimt husker du … at du en gang sto slik
in an abrupt glimpse you remember… that you once stood like that
4.2000, Pernille Rygg, Det gyldne snitt:
ikke gråt, bare et siste, abrupt avklippet ynk
not crying, just one last, abruptly clipped pity
5.2013, Erik Bjerck Hagen, Livets overskudd, page 107:
Riis’ abrupte og prekære tilbaketog
Riis' abrupt and precarious retreat
[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Latin abruptus (“broken off, torn; abrupt”).
[References]
- “abrupt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “abrupt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “abrupt” in Store norske leksikon
[[Romanian]]
ipa :/aˈbrupt/[Adjective]
abrupt m or n (feminine singular abruptă, masculine plural abrupți, feminine and neuter plural abrupte)
1.abrupt
2.extremely steep, near vertical
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French abrupt, Latin abruptus.
[References]
- abrupt in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
[[Swedish]]
ipa :/aˈbrɵpːt/[Adjective]
abrupt
1.abrupt, sudden
[Adverb]
abrupt
1.suddenly
[Synonyms]
- plötsligt
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52066
resurgence
[[English]]
[Etymology]
resurge + -ence
[Noun]
resurgence (plural resurgences)
1.An instance of something resurging; a renewal of vigor or vitality.
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52068
something
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsʌm.θɪŋ/[Adjective]
something (not comparable)
1.Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify.
2.1986, Marie Nicole, Foxy Lady, →ISBN, page 20:
"Very poetic." They came to a halt before the outer door. "It's very something," Rusty said wistfully. "How do you do it?"
3.1988, Colleen Klein, A Space for Delight, page 200:
"It's very — it's very something," said Lucy. "It's a kind of love-letter, isn't it?"
4.2014, Sommer Nectarhoff, A Buck in the Snow, →ISBN:
If it isn't large, I certainly can't say it's small. But it's very something.
5.2015, Edward Carey, Lungdon, →ISBN:
'How proud they have become,' I said, 'how disobedient. I must say, all in all, it's very something.'
[Adverb]
something (not comparable)
1.(degree) Somewhat; to a degree.
The baby looks something like his father.
2.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Angelo. Yet giue leaue (my Lord,)
That we may bring you something on the way
3.(colloquial, especially in certain set combinations) Used to adverbialise a following adjective
I miss them something terrible. (I miss them terribly)
4.1913, Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna[2], L.C. Page, →OCLC:
You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says.
5.1994 Summer, Rebecca T. Goodwin, “Keeper of the house”, in Paris Review, volume 36, number 131, page 161:
Seeing him here, though, I all of a sudden feel more like I been gone from home three years, instead of three weeks, and I miss my people something fierce.
6.2001 January, Susan Schorn, “Bobby Lee Carter and the hand of God”, in U.S. Catholic, volume 66, number 1, page 34:
And then she put the coffin right out on her front porch. Jim told everyone he'd built it kind of roomy since Bobby Lee was on the stout side, but that it better get used quick because sycamore tends to warp something terrible.
[Alternative forms]
- somthing (obsolete)
- sumthing (eye dialect)
- sumn, sumting, sumthang (pronunciation spelling)
- sth, sth., sthg, smtg, smth (abbreviations)
[Etymology]
From Middle English somþyng, some-thing, som thing, sum thinge, sum þinge, from Old English sum þing (literally “some thing”), equivalent to some + thing. Compare Old English āwiht (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”), Swedish någonting (“something”, literally “some thing, any thing”).
[Noun]
something (plural somethings)
1.An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
2.1903, Florence Converse, Long Will: A Romance, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 138:
Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within.
3.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
4.An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
5.1999, Nicholas Clapp, The Road to Ubar [6]
What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?
6.2004, Theron Q Dumont, The Master Mind [7]
Moreover, in all of our experience with these sense impressions, we never lose sight of the fact that they are but incidental facts of our mental existence, and that there is a Something Within which is really the Subject of these sense reports—a Something to which these reports are presented, and which receives them.
7.2004, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives [8]
She wiped something with a cloth, wiped at the wall shelf, and put the something on it, clinking glass.
[Pronoun]
something (indefinite pronoun)
1.An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
Synonym: (especially in dictionaries) sth
I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
I have something for you in my bag.
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today.
The answer to four down is P something T something Y.
She looked thirty-something. (anything from thirty-one to thirty-nine years old)
2.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
3.(colloquial, of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree.
The performance was something of a disappointment.
That child is something of a genius.
4.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
5.2020 May 7, Katie Rife, “If you’re looking to jump in your seat, make a playdate with Z”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
Christensen, who also edited and co-wrote the film, is becoming something of a specialist in child horror, having launched his feature directorial career with the infant-themed Still/Born in 2017.
6.(colloquial, of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
Synonym: je ne sais quoi
She has a certain something.
7.(colloquial, often with really or quite) Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
Some marmosets are less than six inches tall. —Well, isn't that something?
[Verb]
something (third-person singular simple present somethings, present participle somethinging, simple past and past participle somethinged)
1.Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
2.1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes [3]
He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.
3.2003, George Angel, “Allegoady,” in Juncture, Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez edd. [4]
She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.
4.2005, Floyd Skloot, A World of Light [5]
“Oh how we somethinged on the hmmm hmm we were wed. Dear, was I ever on the stage?”
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yearslong
[[English]]
[Adjective]
yearslong (not comparable)
1.Lasting several or many years.
[Etymology]
years + -long
[Synonyms]
- multiyear, perennial
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shrinkflation
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Blend of shrink + inflation. Popularized by economist Pippa Malmgren.[1]
[Noun]
shrinkflation (uncountable)
1.(economics, informal, neologism) The practice of making products smaller while continuing to market them at the same price.
2.2016, Andy Dawson, Get in the Sea!: An Apoplectic Guide to Modern Life, page 106:
Chocolate bars are just the thin end of the wedge, though, and shrinkflation is happening in products right across the board.
3.2021, Rosalind Masterson, Nichola Phillips, David Pickton, Marketing: An Introduction, page 489:
According to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), shrinkflation most commonly affects food, drink and household products such as toilet rolls, nappies, tissues and washing-up liquid.
4.2022 May 18, Caitlin Cassidy, “Shrinkflation bites: popular food brands quietly downsize while charging same price or more”, in The Guardian[2]:
Major cereal brand Kelloggs has also been accused of shrinkflation. Since 2019, the company had moved from selling 670 gram Crunchy Nut boxes for $6 to selling 640 gram boxes at $9 a pop, Choice found.
5.2023 September 14, “Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands”, in The Guardian[3], sourced from Reuters, →ISSN:
Consumer groups say shrinkflation is a widespread practice, which supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their own-label products.
[References]
1. ^ “That Shrinking Feeling”, in Merriam-Webster[1], 2022
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52072
unmoor
[[English]]
[Etymology]
un- + moor
[Verb]
unmoor (third-person singular simple present unmoors, present participle unmooring, simple past and past participle unmoored)
1.(transitive) To unfix or unsecure (a moored boat).
2.2007 August 2, Ellen Barry, “U.S. Halts Heating Oil Deliveries by Two Companies Accused of Swindling”, in New York Times[1]:
“It would’ve taken him a half-hour to unmoor the boat.”
3.(transitive, figurative) To set free or loose.
4.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 93:
When oblivion finally unmoors us.
5.(intransitive) To weigh anchor.
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52073
souring
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- nigrous, rousing, rugosin
[Noun]
souring (countable and uncountable, plural sourings)
1.The process by which something is made, or becomes, sour; acidification.
2.The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.
3.(dated) Any sour apple.
4.(dated) Vinegar.Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “souring”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
[Verb]
souring
1.present participle and gerund of sour
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rendezvous
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/[Alternative forms]
- randezvous (archaic)
- rendez-vous
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
[Noun]
rendezvous (plural rendezvous or (rare) rendezvouses)
1.A meeting or date.
I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
2.1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:
The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
3.1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City[1], performed by The Cars:
You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you
4.An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
5.A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
6.1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
7.(military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
8.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
9.(astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
10.(obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
11.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
A rendeuous, a home to fly unto
[See also]
- rendez-vous for French definition, spelling, and pronunciation
[Synonyms]
- (military): RV (abbreviation)
[Verb]
rendezvous (third-person singular simple present rendezvouses or rendezvous, present participle rendezvousing, simple past and past participle rendezvoused)
1.(intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place.
Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
2.1760–1765, Tobias Smollett, The History of England[2], volume 2:
At Boston in New England, they were joined by two regiments of provincials; and about four thousand men, consisting of American planters, Palatines, and Indians, rendezvoused at Albany, in order to march by land into Canada, while the fleet sailed up the river of that name.
3.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 392:
In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.
4.2024 February 16, Minju Pak, “Ode to a Punk Rock ‘Sex God’”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
They saw each other four times after that, rendezvousing at New York locations reflecting their own tastes. For him, the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill; for her, the Standard and Ludlow hotels.
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈrandɛvuː][Alternative forms]
- rendez-vous
[Further reading]
- rendezvous in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
[Noun]
rendezvous n (indeclinable)
1.date, appointment (meeting with a lover or potential lover)
Synonym: rande
[[Danish]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French rendez-vous.
[Noun]
rendezvous n (singular definite rendezvouset or rendezvous'et, plural indefinite rendezvouser or rendezvous'er)
1.rendezvous
[Synonyms]
- stævnemøde
- date
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52076
put by
[[English]]
[Etymology]
From put + by.
[Synonyms]
- (save): save, put away, set aside, put aside, lay aside, lay by, lay up, See Thesaurus:accumulate
- (remove,reject): put away, set aside, put aside, lay aside
- (do without notice): sneak past, get past
[Verb]
put by (third-person singular simple present puts by, present participle putting by, simple past and past participle put by)
1.(transitive) To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for later use.
Coordinate terms: lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put aside, put away, save, store, store away, store up
Our family has been putting food by for generations.
I have put by a few hundred pounds for a rainy day.
2.(transitive) To remove (something) from the present context and into its proper place; (figurative) to reject or disregard.
When the lesson was finished, she put by her books and papers.
3.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 320:
For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:
4.1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC:
I refolded and put by his letter and the draft for the fifty pounds,
5.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
When I came first to Caulds I sought to prevail upon him to accept the eldership, but he aye put me by, and when I heard his tale I saw that he had done wisely.
6.(ditransitive) To perform an action without attracting the attention of.
I managed to put that transaction by accounts payable.
7.(intransitive) Of a ship: to be run aground intentionally to avoid a collision
The Bow Spring put by to avoid colliding with the Manzanillo II.
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markedly
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈmɑːkɪdli/[Adverb]
markedly (comparative more markedly, superlative most markedly)
1.In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.
Being markedly different as a teenager can get you taunted; as an adult it can make you famous.
2.1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:
Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.
[Alternative forms]
- markèdly
[Etymology]
marked + -ly
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cost
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈkɒst/[Anagrams]
- C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot
[Etymology 1]
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin cōstō, from Latin cōnstō (“stand together”).
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
[Etymology 3]
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
[Etymology 4]
From Middle English coste, from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
[[Catalan]]
ipa :[ˈkɔst][Etymology 1]
Deverbal from costar.
[Etymology 2]
From Latin costum.
[Further reading]
- “cost” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “cost”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cost” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
[[Manx]]
[Noun]
cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)
1.charge (monetary)
[[Old English]]
ipa :/kost/[Adjective]
cost
1.chosen, choice
2.tried, proven; excellent
[Etymology]
From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”).Akin to Old Saxon kostōn (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kostōn (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ċēosan (“to choose”).
[Noun]
cost m
1.option, choice; possibility
2.condition, manner, way
þæs costes þe ― on the condition that
[[Old French]]
[Etymology]
From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (at a price)”).
[Noun]
cost oblique singular, m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)
1.cost; financial outlay
[[Romanian]]
ipa :[kost][Etymology 2]
Back-formation from costa
[[Welsh]]
ipa :/koːsd/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English cost.
[Further reading]
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cost”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
[Mutation]
[Noun]
cost m or f (plural costau)
1.cost
2.expense
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52080
cost up
[[English]]
[Verb]
cost up (third-person singular simple present costs up, present participle costing up, simple past and past participle costed up)
1.(transitive) to calculate the costs of something.
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52081
catch
[[English]]
ipa :/kæt͡ʃ/[Antonyms]
- drop, release
[Etymology]
From Middle English cacchen, from Anglo-Norman cachier, variant of Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Akin to Modern French chasser (from Old French chacier) and Spanish cazar, and thus a doublet of chase. Displaced Middle English fangen ("to catch"; > Modern English fang (verb)), from Old English fōn (“to seize, take”); Middle English lacchen ("to catch" and heavily displaced Modern English latch), from Old English læċċan.The verb became irregular, possibly under the influence of the semantically similar latch (from Old English læċċan) whose past tense was lahte, lauhte, laught (Old English læhte) until becoming regularised in Modern English.
[Noun]
catch (countable and uncountable, plural catches)
1.(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
2.(countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
The player made an impressive catch.
Nice catch!
3.(countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
Good catch. I never would have remembered that.
4.2008, John I. Carney, Soapstone, page 74:
"In that case," said Jeff, "I just thought of something else we need." He walked over to one of the stations that was selling household goods and bought a can opener.
"Nice catch," said Lucy.
5.(uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
The kids love to play catch.
6.(countable) Something which is captured or caught.
The fishermen took pictures of their catch.
The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
7.(countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
Did you see his latest catch?
He's a good catch.
8.2014 July 10, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 561 - A Catch:
"Aaaugh! Just once, I wish I could be considered a catch by men younger than fifty..."
9.
10. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
11.(countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.
12.(countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch?
Be careful, that's a catch question.
13.(countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
14.(countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
15.1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[1], page 266:
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
16.1872, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook, page 90:
"'Fair Enslaver!'" cried Mr. Enderby. "You must know 'Fair Enslaver:' there is not a sweeter catch than that. Come, Miss Ibbotson, begin; your sister will follow, and I—"
But it so happened that Miss Ibbotson had never heard 'Fair Enslaver.'
17.(obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
18.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I Section 3:
You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.
19.1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
The common and the canon law […] lie at catch, and wait advantages one against another.
The spelling has been modernized.
20.(countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
21.1905, Eighth Biennial Report of the Board of Horticulture of the State of Oregon[2], page 204:
There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.
22.(obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
23.1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 158:
Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.
24.(countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
25.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?
26.1966, Allen Tate, T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work[3], page 76:
One night, I remember, we sang a catch, written (words and music) by Orlo Williams, for three voices.
27.(countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
28.2003, Robert Hugh Benson, Come Rack! Come Rope![4], page 268:
The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song.
29.
30. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
31.1997 May 10, Henry Blofeld, “Cricket: Rose and Burns revive Somerset”, in The Independent[5]:
It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.
32.(countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
33.1894 September 16, “To Meet Lord Hawke's Team”, in The New York Times[6], page 21:
[…] in the field he is all activity, covers an immense amount of ground, and is a sure catch.
34.(countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
35.1935 June 7, Robert F. Kelley, “California Crews Impress at Debut”, in The New York Times[7], page 29:
They are sitting up straighter, breaking their arms at the catch and getting on a terrific amount of power at the catch with each stroke.
36.(countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
37.2006, Mitsugu Sakihara et al., Okinawan-English Wordbook[8], →ISBN:
The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.
38.Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
39.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
, Introduction
the way it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals of interruption
40.A slight remembrance; a trace.
41.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
We retain a catch of those pretty stories.
[References]
1. ^ Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828. byu.edu.
2. ^ Kenyon & Knott, A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. archive.org
3. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 5, page 25.
[Synonyms]
- (act of capturing): seizure, capture, collar, snatch
- (the act of catching a ball): grasp, snatch
- (act of noticing): observation
- (a find): prize, find; conquest, beau
- (quantity captured): haul, take
- (stopping mechanism): stop, chock; clasp, hasp, latch
- (hidden difficulty): snag, problem; trick, gimmick, hitch
- (fragment of music): snatch, fragment; snippet, bit
- (refrain): chorus, refrain, burden
- (seize in motion): fang, snatch, grab
- (capture prey): capture, take; snare, hook
- (be hit): take, get
[Verb]
catch (third-person singular simple present catches, present participle catching, simple past and past participle caught)
1.(heading) To capture, overtake.
1.(transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). [from 13thc.]
I hope I catch a fish.
He ran but we caught him at the exit.
The police caught the robber at a nearby casino.
2.(transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive. [from 14thc.]
3.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 12:13:
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
4.(transitive, figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
5.1933, Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers[9], page 108:
The public […] said that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.
6.2006, Michael Collier, Georgia Machemer, Medea[10], page 23:
As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens. […] from the moment she caught her man, this influential, unconventional woman became a lightning rod […].
7.(transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc. [from 16thc.]
If he catches you on the chin, you'll be on the mat.
8.2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.
9.(transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for. [from 17thc.]
If you leave now you might catch him.
I would love to have dinner but I have to catch a plane.
10.2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Did anyone catch the Charlie Rose the evening before last. Did you catch it? No, nothing?
11.2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian[11]:
For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. […] But it was all over in time for my daughter to catch the Nigeria v Argentina World Cup game that evening, during which she seemed to reckon everything was miles offside.
12.(transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something). [from 17thc.]
He was caught on video robbing the bank.
He was caught in the act of stealing a biscuit.
13.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 5:
Once he caught me gazing lingeringly and eagerly at him. He turned round with that mocking air he assumed when he wanted to hide his feelings.
14.
15. (transitive) To travel by means of. [from 19thc.]
catch the bus
16.1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:
The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.
17.1987, A.J. Quinnell, In the Name of the Father[12], page 111:
After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.
18.(transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.) [from 19thc.]
19.2002, Orpha Caton, Shadow on the Creek[13], pages 102–103:
Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.(heading) To seize hold of.
1.(transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of. [from 13thc.]
I caught her by the arm and turned her to face me.
2.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Her aged Nourse, whose name was Glaucè hight, / Feeling her leape out of her loathed nest, / Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight […]
3.(transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep. [from 14thc.]
I have to stop for a moment and catch my breath
I caught some Z's on the train.
4.(transitive) To grip or entangle. [from 17thc.]
My leg was caught in a tree-root.
5.(intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob.
His voice caught when he came to his father's name.
6.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
7.(intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
Push it in until it catches.
The engine finally caught and roared to life.
8.(transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
I caught my heel on the threshold.
9.(intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at). [from 17thc.]
He caught at the railing as he fell.
10.(transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to. [from 18thc.]
The fire spread slowly until it caught the eaves of the barn.
11.(transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke. [from 19thc.]
12.1906, Arthur W. Stevens, Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep[14], page 63:
Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.
13.(intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots. [from 19thc.]
The seeds caught and grew.
14.(transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
15.2001, John Lull, Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue[15], page 203:
If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.
16.(transitive, computing) To handle an exception. [from 20thc.]
When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.(heading) To intercept.
1.(transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium). [from 16thc.]
I will throw you the ball, and you catch it.
Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.
2.(transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs. [from 16thc.]
3.1811, [Jane Austen], “18”, in Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself, […].
4.(transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce. [from 18thc.]
Townsend hit 29 before he was caught by Wilson.
5.(transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher. [from 19thc.]
He caught the last three innings.(heading) To receive (by being in the way).
1.(transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.). [from 13thc.]
You're going to catch a beating if they find out.
2.(transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure. [from 13thc.]
The sunlight caught the leaves and the trees turned to gold.
Her hair was caught by the light breeze.
3.(transitive) To become infected by (an illness). [from 16thc.]
Everyone seems to be catching the flu this week.
4.(intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
5.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:
Does the sedition catch from man to man?
6.1817, Mary Martha Sherwood, Stories Explanatory of the Church Catechism:
He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching."
7.(transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.). [from 18thc.]
The bucket catches water from the downspout.
The trees caught quickly in the dry wind.
8.2003, Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes[16], page 63:
the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.
9.(transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection. [from 16thc.]
She finally caught the mood of the occasion.
And the next thing I knew, I had caught feelings for her.
10.(transitive) To be hit by something.
He caught a bullet in the back of the head last year.
11.(intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
12.1877, Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page 135:
The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.
13.(intransitive) To get pregnant.
Well, if you didn't catch this time, we'll have more fun trying again until you do.(heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
1.(transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]
Did you catch his name?
Did you catch the way she looked at him?
2.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
3.(transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment). [from 20thc.]
I have some free time tonight so I think I'll catch a movie.
4.(transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully. [from 17thc.]
You've really caught his determination in this sketch.(heading) To seize attention, interest.
1.(transitive) To charm or entrance. [from 14thc.]
2.2004, Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow[17], page 40:
No, a far more natural beauty caught him.
3.(transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense). [from 17thc.]
He managed to catch her attention.
The enormous scarf did catch my eye.
[[French]]
ipa :/katʃ/[Etymology]
Derived from English catch-as-catch-can (a style of wrestling now known as catch wrestling). Cognate with French chasser (“to hunt”).
[Further reading]
- “catch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
catch m (uncountable)
1.wrestling; professional wrestling
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sour
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈsaʊə/[Adjective]
sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)
1.Tasting of acidity.
Lemons have a sour taste.
2.1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
3.2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired:
A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
4.Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
5.Tasting or smelling rancid.
His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
6.(of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
He gave me a sour look.
7.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
He was a scholar […] / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
8.Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
sour land
a sour marsh
9.Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
sour gas smells like rotten eggs
10.Unfortunate or unfavorable.
11.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity
12.2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.
13.(music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
14.2010, Aniruddh D. Patel, Music, Language, and the Brain, page 201:
Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music).
[Alternative forms]
- sower, sowre (obsolete)
[Anagrams]
- Ruso, ours
[Antonyms]
- (soil, petroleum): sweet
[Etymology]
From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),Polish ser (“cheese”),Czech sýr (“cheese”),Slovak syr (“cheese”),Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”),Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).
[Noun]
sour (countable and uncountable, plural sours)
1.The sensation of a sour taste.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2.A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
3.(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
4.A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
5.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
For many Years of Sorrow can dispense;
A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour
6.The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
[Verb]
sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
1.(transitive) To make sour.
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
2.(intransitive) To become sour.
3.1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems:
So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
4.(transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
5.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
6.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
7.(intransitive) To become disenchanted.
We broke up after our relationship soured.
8.(transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
9.1832, Joseph Harrison, Sir Joseph Paxton, The Horticultural Register, page 396:
stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil
10.To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
11.(transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
[[French]]
[Adjective]
sour (feminine soure, masculine plural sours, feminine plural soures)
1.(nonstandard) Alternative form of sûr
[Preposition]
sour
1.(nonstandard) Alternative form of sur
[[Middle English]]
ipa :/suːr/[Etymology 1]
From Old English sūr.
[Etymology 2]
From Old French essorer.
[[Romansch]]
[Alternative forms]
- sora (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
[Etymology]
From Latin soror.
[Noun]
sour f (plural sours)
1.(Puter, Vallader) sister
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Soure
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈso(w).ɾi/[Proper noun]
Soure
1.A town and municipality of the district of Coimbra, Portugal
2.A parish of Soure municipality, district of Coimbra, Portugal
3.A city in Pará, Brazil
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Gaza
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɡɑːzə/[Etymology]
From Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from the Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʿAzzā).
[Proper noun]
Gaza
1.The capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.
2.A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
3.Ellipsis of Gaza Strip, a region of Palestine, a north–south strip of land bordering the Mediterranean and the Sinai Peninsula at the southwestern end of the Levant.
4.Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza, a wadi and valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.
[Synonyms]
- (city): Gaza City
[[Catalan]]
[Proper noun]
Gaza f
1.Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
[[Czech]]
ipa :[ˈɡaza][Further reading]
- Gaza in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
[Proper noun]
Gaza f (related adjective gazský, demonym Gazan)
1.Gaza
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˈɣaː.zaː/[Etymology]
From Middle Dutch gaza, from Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עזה (`aza).
[Proper noun]
Gaza f
1.Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
2.Short for Gazastrook.
[[French]]
ipa :/ɡa.za/[Etymology]
From Latin Gaza.
[Proper noun]
Gaza f
1.Gaza
[[Latin]]
ipa :/ˈɡaz.za/[Etymology]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה ('Áza).
[Proper noun]
Gaza f sg (genitive Gazae); first declension
1.Gaza (the capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine)
[[Polish]]
ipa :/ˈɡa.za/[Etymology]
Learned borrowing from Latin Gaza.
[Further reading]
- Gaza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Gaza in PWN's encyclopedia
[Proper noun]
Gaza f (related adjective gazański)
1.Gaza, Gaza City (the capital city of Gaza Strip)
2.Gaza, Gaza Strip (an exclave of Palestine)
Synonym: Strefa Gazy
3.Gaza (a province of Mozambique)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ˈɡa.zɐ/[Proper noun]
Gaza
1.Gaza (a city in Palestine)
2.A province of Mozambique
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
[Proper noun]
Gáza f (Cyrillic spelling Га́за)
1.Gaza (a city in Palestine)
[See also]
- Pojas Gaze
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/ˈɡaθa/[Proper noun]
Gaza ?
1.Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
[[Swahili]]
[Proper noun]
Gaza
1.Gaza
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Gaza Strip
[[English]]
ipa :/ˌɡɑːzə ˈstɹɪp/[Proper noun]
Gaza Strip
1.A region of Palestine, Levant, between Egypt and Israel: A small area of land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a Palestinian territory bordered by Egypt and Israel.
Synonyms: Gaza, (informal) the Strip
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Strip
[[English]]
[Anagrams]
- TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips
[Proper noun]
The Strip
1.(informal) Ellipsis of Gaza Strip (“Levant”).
2.(informal) Ellipsis of Las Vegas Strip (“Las Vegas, Nevada, USA”). (Vegas Strip)
3.(informal) Ellipsis of Sunset Strip (“Los Angeles, California, USA”).
4.(informal) Ellipsis of Strip District (“Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA”).
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strip
[[English]]
ipa :/stɹɪp/[Anagrams]
- TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips
[Etymology 1]
From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).[1]
[Etymology 2]
From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
[Further reading]
- strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
-
- Strip in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
[[Dutch]]
ipa :-ɪp[Etymology]
From English strip.
[Noun]
strip m (plural strips, diminutive stripje n)
1.strip (long thin piece)
2.comic (a cartoon story)
[Synonyms]
- (strip): strook
- (comic): beeldverhaal
[Verb]
strip
1.inflection of strippen:
1.first-person singular present indicative
2.imperative
[[French]]
[Further reading]
- “strip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
strip m (plural strips)
1.striptease
[[Portuguese]]
[Etymology]
Unadapted borrowing from English strip, or a clipping of striptease.
[Noun]
strip m (plural strips)
1.Synonym of striptease
[[Serbo-Croatian]]
ipa :/strîp/[Etymology]
Borrowed from English strip.
[Noun]
strȉp m (Cyrillic spelling стри̏п)
1.comic (a cartoon story)
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enclave
[[English]]
ipa :/ˈɛnkleɪv/[Anagrams]
- Valence, valence
[Etymology]
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.
[Noun]
enclave (plural enclaves)
1.A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.
2.A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
3.2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times[1]:
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
4.(computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
5.2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:
When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.
[References]
- (group set off from a larger population by a characteristic): Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life - Page 74by Robert Neelly Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton, Richard Madsen - 1996
[Verb]
enclave (third-person singular simple present enclaves, present participle enclaving, simple past and past participle enclaved)
1.(transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.
[[Dutch]]
ipa :/ˌɑŋˈklaː.və/[Etymology]
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave.
[Noun]
enclave f (plural enclaves, diminutive enclaafje n or enclavetje n)
1.enclave
[[French]]
ipa :/ɑ̃.klav/[Anagrams]
- valence, Valence
[Etymology]
From enclaver.
[Further reading]
- “enclave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
[Noun]
enclave f (plural enclaves)
1.enclave
2.(field hockey or ice hockey) the slot
[[Italian]]
ipa :/enˈkla.ve/[Noun]
enclave f (plural enclavi) (Often invariant)
1.enclave
[References]
1. ^ enclave in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
[[Portuguese]]
ipa :/ẽˈkla.vi/[Alternative forms]
- encrave
[Noun]
enclave m (plural enclaves)
1.(geography) enclave (region completely surrounded by another)
2.(geology) an intrusive rock
[[Spanish]]
ipa :/enˈklabe/[Etymology 1]
Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:enclaveWikipedia esBorrowed from French enclave.
[Further reading]
- “enclave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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insecurity
[[English]]
[Etymology]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnsēcūritās. By surface analysis, insecure + -ity.
[Noun]
insecurity (countable and uncountable, plural insecurities)
1.A lack of security; uncertainty.
Synonym: insecureness
Antonym: security
2.2020 July 1, Paul Stephen, “Mental health in the workplace”, in Rail, page 51:
They are also more likely to be on freelance or short-term contracts, which can contribute to feelings of financial insecurity and therefore a greater tendency for people to attend work even they are unwell.
1.A lack of confidence in oneself.
Synonyms: insecureness, self-doubt
Antonyms: security, self-assurance, self-confidence
2.The state of being subject to danger (physical, economic, or otherwise).
economic insecurity
Synonyms: exposure, insecureness, precariousness, precarity, vulnerability
Antonyms: safety, security
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foo
[[English]]
ipa :/fuː/[Anagrams]
- oof
[Etymology 1]
From Mandarin 府 (fǔ).
[Etymology 2]
foo is presumably based on the fu character (fú, 福)English Wikipedia has an article on:fooWikipedia From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip,[1][2][3] whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant om mani padme hum,[1] possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
[Etymology 3]
A minced form of fuck.
[References]
1.↑ 1.0 1.1 Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003), “foo”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.
2. ^ "The History of Bill Holman", Smokey-Stover.com, Smokey Stover LLC – article by nephew of Bill Holman
3. ^ "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion"
- rfc:3092, Etymology of "Foo", Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
[See also]
Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
- foo dog
- foo fighter
- foo-foo
- foo-foo band
- foo-foo juice
- foo lion
- foo young
- foo yung
[[Middle English]]
[Etymology 1]
From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh.
[Etymology 2]
From Old English fā, variant of fāh.
[[Murui Huitoto]]
ipa :[ˈɸɔː][Adverb]
foo
1.in, inside
[Alternative forms]
- fo
[References]
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 91
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 145
[[Tetum]]
[Verb]
foo
1.to stink
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war-ravaged
[[English]]
[Adjective]
war-ravaged (comparative more war-ravaged, superlative most war-ravaged)
1.Synonym of war-torn.
2.1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 63:
The "Liberation" Locomotive. Reprinted from The Railway Gazette, June 28, 1946. […] This detailed description of the 2-8-0 locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for service in the war-ravaged countries of Europe is a record of one of the most remarkable examples of determined co-operative effort in the field of locomotive construction.
[References]
- “war-ravaged”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
[See also]
- Swedish krigshärjad
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efficiency
[[English]]
ipa :/ɪˈfɪʃn̩si/[Etymology]
From Latin efficientia.
[Noun]
efficiency (countable and uncountable, plural efficiencies)
1.The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.
2.1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
3.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
4.(dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
5.1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
6.The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
The efficiency of this loudspeaker is 40%.
7.(US) A one-room apartment.
Synonyms: efficiency apartment, studio apartment, (UK, Ireland) bedsit
I have an efficiency available June through July.
fully-furnished efficiencies
[References]
- efficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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[[English]]
ipa :/ˌəʊvəɹˈɑːtʃɪŋ/[Adjective]
overarching (comparative more overarching, superlative most overarching)
1.That forms an overhead arch
2.(by extension) all-embracing or overwhelming
Synonyms: all-embracing, all-encompassing
The work attains narrative continuity, variety in its stories, and unity through the overarching idea of metamorphosis.
3.2020 May 20, David Thrower, Ian Wray, “Revisiting the plan for developing the North's rail network”, in Rail, page 39:
Firstly, there needs to be an overarching plan - in the sense that each part of the rail system must be considered together, precisely because it is an integrated network.
[Noun]
overarching (plural overarchings)
1.A structure that arches over something.
2.1875, Julius Sachs, Alfred William Bennett, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological, page 27:
But in this case the overarchings do not grow uniformly, but in such a manner that their rims form at least a fissure […]
[References]
- “overarching”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
[Verb]
overarching
1.present participle and gerund of overarch
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